"Comparison Is the Thief of Joy" ~ Teddy Roosevelt
Do you compare yourself to someone else or to who you were yesterday?
If you are comparing yourself to someone else, it's the recipe for a life of misery.
If you compare yourself to who you were yesterday, you're going to have a much better relationship with yourself.
When you were born, there was no comparison. No baby is ever self-conscious of their buddha belly!
At birth, as in death... we are all equal. So why make things so difficult on yourself in between?
Criticism requires comparison and judgement requires comparison. No comparison = no criticism, @judgement or suffering.
I'm taking a more objective look at my life. The subjective view is a biased, often tainted by an inflated vision of a society that has programmed us to feel a lower self-worth. Why? Because the marketers know the recipe to sell you more stuff.
Just as the food scientist have created irresistible combinations of salt & sweet, marketers have been dialing in their messaging for decades.
What makes consumers buy more?
A marketer's mission? Create an unfillable void. Create an insatiable desire and like a horse chasing the carrot tied to it's back, we'll be forever chasing what we can never get.